thinkliberty

March 16, 2004

Any time I try to access the floppy, MDK 10 goes into some sort of read loop trying to read the floppy and it goes on forever and sometimes it stops and sometimes I have to kill the power on the computer.

I tried the exact same fstab line that I used in 9.2 and also tried disabling supermount and no go.

I can boot up in windows and the floppy still works fine.

Are you using magicdev?

type

su (it will ask for your root password)

ps -aux |grep magic

then post the output.

March 16, 2004

Anybody know the secret? I tried "supermount -i disable" and it seemed to work but for the cd drives but not completely. I made a mounting icon for the drive and when i mounted a cd a second mounting icon appeared for the drive and it won't let me umount the drive. And nothing I do can get rid of the floppy icon. Also, can't format a floppy as they seem to be automounted no matter what I do.
Actually, the automounting works pretty good on all the drives; I'd just like to be able to turn it off if I need to.

Is magicdev a service that can be turned off in the MDKCC

March 16, 2004

Mandrake 10 is (hopefully) still a release candidate.

1) Nvidia drivers need to be modprobed with every boot. I know I can fix it, but why should I have to?

2) Internet is slow. And slow. Did I say slow?

3) Network configuration is not as nice as the past.

4) Font program in mcc is not as nice as the previous release. In both 3 and 4, they have opted for streamlining and elimenated some useful function in the tools.

5) The auto mouse feature is a dawg. I spell it that way so as to not insult real dogs! My scroll wheel was sensative to the horizontal anywhere on the page, but I had to be on top of the verticle in order for it to work. That is backwards. Getting it to go to ps/2 mouse was difficult; it wanted to hang on to the new auto mouse thing.

Good stuff?

1) new kde gui is excellent, especially the transparent kicker.

2) I like the new menu lay-out.

3) It seems to boot faster and shut down faster, although I would rather that it boot correctly into x.

I'll go back to 9.2 if I can't speed up the internet.

For me the 10 kernel was what was causing my problems. a ww.kernel.org kernel fixed all these issues for me.

March 16, 2004

script attached as file :deal:

You need to have links installed to use it to install it open konsole and type

su (it will ask for your root password)

urpmi links

exit

Now make the script executable type

chmod a+x getscox

Then run the script type

./getscox

or

sh getscox

getscox

March 16, 2004

##!/bin/sh
#getscox - Free to use and modify!!
# Colors for output
red='\E[31;40m'
green='\E[32;40m'
white='\E[37;40m'
yellow='\E[33;40m'
blue='\E[34;40m'
lblue='\E[36;40m'
bold="\033[1m"
normal="\033[0m"

links -source "http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=SCOX&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv" > scox.csv
ARRAY=(`sed s/[,\"]/\ /g < scox.csv`)
COMPANY=${ARRAY[0]}

SIGN=${ARRAY[4]:0:1}
if [ "$SIGN" = "+" ];
then COLOR=$green
else
COLOR=$red
fi

echo -en $bold"Company:" $yellow$COMPANY$normal
echo -en $bold "      Date:" $yellow${ARRAY[2]}$normal
echo -e $bold "       Time: " $yellow${ARRAY[3]}$normal
echo -en $bold"Current:" $yellow${ARRAY[1]}$normal
echo -en $bold "      Change: "$COLOR ${ARRAY[4]}$normal
echo -e $bold "      Volume: "$yellow ${ARRAY[8]}$normal
echo -en $bold"Open:" $yellow${ARRAY[5]}$normal
echo -en $bold "         Day's High:" $blue${ARRAY[6]}$normal
echo -e $bold " Day's low:" $lblue${ARRAY[7]}$bold
echo

tput sgr0

March 16, 2004

I'm using the 2.6.3-4mdk kernel, or trying to. Here's my lilo.conf:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot

# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

default="linux-enterprise"

keytable=/boot/us.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount splash=silent"

vga=788

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux-nonfb"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-enterprise

label="linux-enterprise"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd-enterprise.img

append="devfs=mount splash=silent"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp

label="linux-smp"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img

append="devfs=mount splash=silent"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="failsafe"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="failsafe devfs=nomount"

read-only

other=/dev/fd0

label="floppy"

unsafe

HMmm... I was thinking about the /usr/src/linux/.config file. Sorry for the mixup.

March 15, 2004

I am unable to get Mandrake 10.0 to boot successfully with the enterprise kernel, unless I disable the onboard gigabit NIC on my Intel motherboard. Enabled, the kernel hangs during boot bringing up eth0. Same story with the SMP kernel. The "plain vanilla" linux kernel DOES successfully configure and boot with the NIC enabled, so it can apparently be done (which is how I'm posting this now). Unfortunately, this plain kernel has no idea what to make of my P4's hyperthreading (only one virtual CPU listed under /proc/cpuinfo), and sees less than half of my 2 GB of RAM.

I'm just hoping somebody has also seen this behavior and can provide some ideas; if need be, I may have access to a PCI NIC I can try and swap in, but I'm hoping that won't be necessary. System details:

3.0 GHz P4

Intel D875PBZLK mobo

2 GB DDR400 memory

MSI GF4 MX440 video

SB Live 5.1 audio

Liteon burner/DVD ROM drives

NB: This same system had been running fine for months under MDK 9.1, only requiring a manual build and install of the NIC driver from a tarball on Intel's website. I already checked, there's nothing there for the 2.6 kernel, unfortunately.

Post your config file, I can modify it so it will see your RAM.

I had problems with MDK's kernel, my usb mouse wouldn't work :( the 2.6.3mm feels faster for my desktop.

The only thing I think you'll be missing out on is supermount. There is a patch for that if you think you need it, I can give you instructions on how to add it.

Are you using a 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel?

March 15, 2004

Both, and still nothing :(

pen the konsole or other terminal app of choice then type

su (it will ask you for your root users password)

update-menus -v

exit

update-menus -v

Do you get any errors? the v will let you know if there were any problems...

March 15, 2004

Sweet!!!

That was easier than I ever dreamed of. By SSH front ends you mean a GUI?

Thanks!

Yes by frontend I was meaning GUI.

see:

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/I...lnet/SSH/11520/

March 15, 2004

I'm not happy with the license change which has forced all the major distros to use 4.3 - this includes Mandrake 10.0. Installing X using the source or the binaries provided is too confusing for an uber n00b like me. If anyone can point me to an rpm or maybe if you have the time to make an rpm then I will be eternally grateful.

A big thanks in advance

If you have an FTP server I can upload the 4.4 rpms to from cooker when it was in there I can do that.

Otherwise you have to follow the readme at.

http://xfree86.org/4.4.0/Install.html

March 14, 2004

Hi,

my MDK 9.1 installation contains photo2. I tried getting photos from my camera with the gtkam gui: camera - add - select camera - detect. My camera is recognized properly (with port: usb). When I click "apply", I get the following error messages in pop-ups: "could not list folders in "/"" and "could not initialise camera.

I have read through the instructions at www.gphoto.org but could not find any reference to that error.

Any help appreciated.

What kind of camera are you using?

Does it have a memory card? The CF card might be corrupt and need to be reformated.

It's easier to just use a memory card reader to get the photos out of the camera, It's faster most of the time too.

Memory card readers are cheap now days I picked up a 6 in one memory card reader a few months back from newegg.com for 11 dollars.

It looks like the one I got is 9 dollars now.

see:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-182-301&depa=1

March 14, 2004

I just installed mandrake 10.0, and, after many problems, and a full reinstall formatting and deleting everything, I got it working fine, and continued to install hundreds of programs :P (took me hours to install all this stuff...and I'm not done yet :P I plan to install EVERYTHING, though I won't use 98% of it :P)
Anyways, Mozilla doesn't work. Nothing with the word 'mozilla' in it will work at all. I click it and nothing happens. I tried reinstalling it, but it didn't change anything. Anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?

also, when I try to run it from terminal, it doesn't say 'command not found'...it doesn't come up with an error...just this nothing:

[urza9814@localhost urza9814]$mozilla

[urza9814@localhost urza9814]$

try renaming the /home/<username here>/.mozilla folder to something else and have mozilla recreate the temp files it needs.

You could also just use phe^H/firebir^H/firefox or whatever it's call this week right?

March 14, 2004

Back in the old days, when using windows I would use putty to log in to my sites that had ssh. How do I do this w/ linux. I can't seem to find any way to do this with the regular terminal program...

Mike

You can still use putty to login to a linux box running SSH, If you want to log in via SSH on a linux box type from the terminal

ssh <the usernamehere>@<ipaddress or hostname.domainame>

(after installing ssh of course)

There are SSH frontends as well, I don't use them and can't think of any right now.

March 14, 2004

Ok I just don’t get it. I have just acquired the new mandrake 10 isos and might I say I was quite exited. I uses to use Linux all the time but since I have built my new computer I haven’t been able to get Linux to run on it. I first tried to run mandrake Linux 9.1 but when I tried to boot it I got a kernel panic. Well then I tried 9.2 and behold it worked! I was able to fully install it on my computer but it was very unstable and refused to work with any of my hardware no matter what I did so alas I was crushed. Now I hear of the release of mandrake 10 and my hopes are high but when I try to boot form the media I get the far renowned kernel panic. I’m running a 2600+ amd processor on a KT400 Dragon ultra black edition MoBo. I’m not a linux master but in the same sence I’m not a retard ether so I ask is there anything I can do to fix this problem or am I doomed to spend a life on a inferior operating system (XP).

Help anyone!

I had the same problem with 9.1 and 9.2 at the boot prompt (hit f1 for more options) type

linux acpi=off noapic

If that doesn't work type

linux noauto

If that doesn't work

go in the bios and turn off all on-board options if possible (sound, usb, firewire etc)

What make and model of motherboard/videocard/harddrive are you using?

March 14, 2004

i wouldn't say mandrakeexpert is a fraud. i would say that this user is finding a way around the system, to up his points. you should point this out to the people over at mandrakeexpert (for them to resolve and fix), as they are affiliated w/Mandrake, and we're just a user run board :)

I did report this to the folks at mandrakeexpert, one of the emails bounced as the account didn't exist, the other did not send a response. (Not even an auto-reply)

I figured maybe someone from Mandrake might read this forum and address the issue.

March 14, 2004

I still fail to see the point.

I have used mandrake expert in the past, after my first power-pack purchase, and I fail to see why any of this is even relevent.

I asked a question that nobody at any forum could help me with and the next day the solution was posted. Who gives a damn if they ask and answer stupid questions?

The point is that the ranking system is a fraud.

March 14, 2004

Welcome to the board thinkliberty.
Ummm......Somebody clue me in, what does UCN_CCHS stand for /mean??

From a quick google search it looks like:

United Club Network (UCN) from Concord-Carlisle High School (CCHS)

see:

http://www.colonial.net/schoolweb/cchsweb/

Click on the clubs page for the UCN reference.

It could be somthing else like California College for Health Sciences, Camden County High School, etc. etc. But from the Concordschoolcomp user asking the questions on the page, I am guessing it is the Concord-Carlisle High School.